 | Elizabeth Allen - 2006 - 318 sidor
...praise to the unfettered joys of the piratical existence: O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,...billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! (278, ll. 1-4)" Conveying the rhythmic surging of the waves along with the pirates' triumphant reveling... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 2007 - 288 sidor
...calls upon ideas of freedom to justify imperial expansion: O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,...their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. (Corsair, canto 1, st. 1, lines 1-6) That phrase "dark blue sea" occurs twice more in the first two... | |
 | Jeffrey Cass, Larry H. Peer - 2008 - 252 sidor
...and movement: "O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,/ Our thoughts as boundless, and our soul's as free/ Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,/ Survey our empire, and behold our home!" (1.1-4). The empire suggested here, if not finally achieved, is one formed not through acquisition... | |
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O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! 
